Raise the annual growth rate from 5% to 6% through the modernization, commercialization and diversification.

• Support to private sector to develop medium and large scale agricultural operations.
• Facilitate improvement of productivity of small-scale operations;
• Review existing programmes and continue with cost-effective ones.
• Improvement of farmer/extension officer ratio.
• Establishment of Agricultural Development Fund with funding from taxes on imported food items.
• Increase in irrigated land from 10,000 to 20,000 hectare;
• Development of cold store chains, park houses and fumigation facilities at airports and seaports.
• Establishment of Land banks.
• Implementation of NDC's National Land Policy.
• Support for development of specified industrial and food crops such as roots and tubes (cassava and yams), fresh and processed fruits, cotton, cashew and vegetables.
• Achievement of a minimum 50% self-sufficiency in rice production.
• Promotion of domestic production of poultry feed and other commercial poultry inputs.
• Encouragement of establishment of large-scale cattle ranches and promotion of small ruminants.
• Establishment of allowable fish catch and regeneration of dwindling fish stocks.
• Effective agricultural marketing, with emphasis on stable prices, regular supply, warehousing, inventory credit, buffer stocks, and agro-processing.
• Promoting local and foreign investments in large-scale agricultural production and processing.
• Use of information technology to support agricultural marketing.
• Provision of micro-financing for small scale agricultural producers through a Rural Financial Services Project.
• Agricultural funding through the Agricultural Development Bank and other commercial and development banks.
• Restructuring of Ghana Food Distribution Corporation into an effective commercial organization and to serve strategic national food security need.

Professor Mills (Ho 2000)

• Increase farm productivity to bring down the cost of food.
• Reduce by half the percentage of income that Ghanaians spend on food.

 I will improve the Ghanaian worker's income and well being and offer a solid foundation for sustained prosperity through national development.

   “To broaden and diversify the Ghanaian economy, I will provide the enabling environment of political stability, a transparent public and private sector collaboration, business leadership, and requisite legal regimes for arbitration and resolution of business disputes as well as a well trained and motivated workforce coupled with the appropriate tax incentives and access to credit provide the key ingredients for a vibrant economic growth in trade industry.”

   “As we invest in our human potential and capital to compete with the world on the global market, we must be guided by the need to build both human and industrial capacity and competence so as to move our economy from its primary nature to attractive and relevant products and markets capable of holding our own for uniqueness, innovation quality in the new technological age and global dynamics. We need to add value to the way we do business and network with our competitors.”

John Evans Atta Mills